Oral Session #16: Plant Demography: Trees and Shrubs.

Presiding: B. Boeken, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Sunday, August 6, 2000
1:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Cottonwood Room III - Sports Event Center

1:00 PM	Ecophysiology and phenology of chaparral shrubs: A multivariate, comparative study. ACKERLY, D.D. , K.P. STARMER
1:15 PM	Positive interactions under nurse-plants: Spatial scale, stress gradients and benefactor size. LLOYD, J.D. , J.J. TEWKSBURY
1:30 PM	Bush encroachment as an integral part of savanna dynamics. WIEGAND, K. , D. WARD, D. SALTZ
1:45 PM	Allometric relationship between tree diameter and total aboveground biomass may be more species independent than previously thought. CHOJNACKY*, D.C. , J.C. JENKINS
2:00 PM	Investigations in relative abundance: a comparison of size distributions of co-occurring, congeneric Mexican trees. KELLY, C.K.
2:15 PM	A comparison of aboveground structure and litter production of Atlantic white cedar swamps in northeastern North Carolina. DEBERRY, J.W. , R.T. BELCHER, D.T. LOOMIS, R.B. ATKINSON
2:30 PM	Forest decline assessment of northern hardwood forests in the southern Appalachians. NICHOLAS, N.S. , C. HUBER, W. JACKSON
2:45 PM	Dendrochronological analysis of white oak (Quercus alba L.) growing across a topographic moisture gradient in southern Ohio. RUBINO, D.L. , B.C. MCCARTHY
3:00 PM	Break
3:15 PM	Disentangling the effects of dispersal, distance- and density-dependent mortality on distributions of trees. HILLERISLAMBERS, J. , J.S. CLARK
3:30 PM	Does dense sugar maple regeneration in gaps reduce herbaceous understory species richness in western Great Lakes conifer-hardwood forests? SCHULZ, K. , J. ZASADA, K. KAHL, E. NAUERTZ, D. BUCKLEY
3:45 PM	Separating dispersal and environmental effects in an eastern deciduous forest. PIERCE JR., K.B. , D. URBAN
4:00 PM	Influence of site quality and disturbance in central Appalachian deciduous forests. SMALL, C.J. , B.C. MCCARTHY
4:15 PM	The differential influence of site and soil characteristics on invasibility of forest communities. HOWARD, T.G. , J.K. GUREVITCH, K. BROWN, W. FANG, R. MISRA
4:30 PM	Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) population dynamics at its eastern distribution limit in Quebec. BABEAU, M. , L. SIROIS
4:45 PM	Size-based demography of long-lived organisms. PHILIPPI, T.
5:00 PM	Morphological variation of Pinus flexilis, a bird-dispersed pine, across a range of elevations. SCHOETTLE, A.W. , S.G. ROCHELLE